This year, like always,
statistics
will be gathered about ballots received and
acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting
period.
Additionally, the list of voters will be
recorded. Also, the tally
sheet will also be made available to be viewed.
Please remember that the project leader election has a
secret ballot, so the tally sheet will be produced with
the hash of the alias of the voter rather than the name;
the alias shall be sent to the corresponding voter along
with the acknowledgement of the ballot so that people may
verify that their votes were correctly tabulated. While
the voting is open the tally will be a dummy one; after
the vote, the final tally sheet will be put in
place. Please note that for secret ballots the md5sum on
the dummy tally sheet is randomly generated, as otherwise
the dummy tally sheet would leak information relating the
md5 hash and the voter.

The Schwartz Set contains

Option 3 "Stefano Zacchiroli"

The winners

Option 3 "Stefano Zacchiroli"

Debian uses the Condorcet method for voting.
Simplistically, plain Condorcets method
can be stated like so : Consider all possible two-way races between candidates.
The Condorcet winner, if there is one, is the one
candidate who can beat each other candidate in a two-way
race with that candidate.
The problem is that in complex elections, there may well
be a circular relationship in which A beats B, B beats C,
and C beats A. Most of the variations on Condorcet use
various means of resolving the tie. See
Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping
for details. Debian's variation is spelled out in the
constitution,
specifically, A.6.